A French engineer in Brazil has lately been selected to construct what will probably be, when completed, the largest dam in the world. The <%n will be 940 ft long l>y 58ft high, and two smaller ones will olo3e side depressions. • This work will, it is calculated, back the water over 1 500 acres, and retain 11,000,000 cubic metre* of water, sufficient to provide for all the cattle of the regions during three years, and for the irrigation of 5,000 acres of fiat bottom land alongside the river bed below. The rivers of Ceara flow in the wet sea, son alone. ■
A London Gas Company, which supplirg gas at 2 S 8d per 1000 ft., has just declared a dividend of 12§ per cent. That furred tongue, bad tasting month, Hitters. Bead and believe. *Z m*? f? BTOS> Beetleß»inaMht' MMh«i mank. cleared out by « Bough on Bata.^, Kempthome, Pros.6, and Co., Ageati, Auok ,
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Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4970, 13 December 1884, Page 2
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153Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4970, 13 December 1884, Page 2
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